Tag: Protests
University of Florida dean suspends anti-Israel protesters for years
Chris Summerlin, dean of students at the University of Florida in Gainesville, chose not to offer slap-on-the-wrist penalties to pro-Hamas protesters arrested on campus on April 29.
Instead, Summerlin applied multiple-year suspensions of some students, the most...
University of Minnesota overtaken by ‘radical, pro-Hamas activists,’ House majority whip says
The University of Minnesota, a highly ranked public school in Minneapolis, allowed itself to be overrun by “radical, pro-Hamas activists” and is “on record endorsing a concept that has been used to justify terrorism and the...
Why did a massacre of Jews lead to an explosion of antisemitism?
On the surface, it makes little sense.
How can the biggest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust lead to the biggest rise in antisemitism in modern times?
Wasn’t it supposed to be the other way around?...
Anti-Israel activists arrested for trespassing at British PM’s home
Four anti-Israel protesters were arrested on Tuesday on suspicion of trespassing on the grounds of U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s constituency home, according to the BBC.
North Yorkshire Police said the men were arrested “within one...
Pro-Hamas mob attacks Jews outside LA shul
A Pro-Hamas mob on Sunday attacked pro-Israel Jews outside the Adas Torah synagogue in the Pico-Robertson area in western Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police officer Tony Im said that the riot was initiated by pro-Palestinian protesters, who...
What do the protesters really want?
There has been an immense investment in protesting the current Israeli government, its leadership and its policies. Front and center, of course, is rabid hatred of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This is closely followed...
As antisemitic mobs attack, Jewish leaders call to ban masks in New York
New York is seeing calls to prohibit masks and implement a mask ban similar to the kind that helped combat the Ku Klux Klan decades ago.
With the number of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents sharply...
Protesters at Hebrew U call to ‘expel the occupier’
Around 100 students participated in an anti-Israel protest at the Hebrew University’s Mount Scopus campus in Jerusalem on Tuesday, waving PLO flags and chanting inflammatory slogans, according to Hebrew media reports.
Kan News shared video of...
Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous
Over the last eight months, Jewish communities around the world have been both intimidated and repulsed by the surge in pro-Hamas demonstrations.
We’ve all seen the signs and heard the slogans variously telling us to...
Contingent of college students visits Israel to prepare for future activism
“There is another front to this war, and it’s happening right now in America.” This is according to Jason Diebner, a student at the University of Texas at Austin currently in Israel with two...